Presidential Proclamation<\/a>.<\/p>\nI’d like to name September 10th National Complacency Day so that we can celebrate our naivete before the attacks on New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania. To remember a time when we didn’t have to face the realities of the world. When we took our national security for granted.<\/p>\n
In the days when the national debate was about lifting the sanctions on Iraq while Saddam Hussein was paying a $25,000.00 bounty to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers in Israel, and the Israelis were planning to build a wall to keep bombers out of Israel. When Gary Condit was our greatest enemy. When Joe Biden was concerned about anti-missile defense destabilizing the world. When the Army’s main effort was focused on buying black berets from China. Not to mention that we’d just barely missed having Al Gore as our president, by a hair.<\/p>\n
So here we are today, worried about football players and other entertainers who won’t stand for the National Anthem…and they’re cheered. Our current president finds it inconvenient to take time out of his vacation day to examine a plan for rescuing American hostages from Islamic terrorists in a timely manner. Both of the national parties have selected a Gore-like candidate to run against each other in a few months and there is no other choice. <\/p>\n
Police have to think twice about shooting criminals and more of the officers are being killed as a result of their hesitation. Terrorists on our soil are excused for their conduct – legal gun owners and legal gun dealers are blamed instead. The government’s only plan to deal with “lone wolf” terrorists is to disarm honest Americans, while the government makes a dog and pony show of entrapping retards.<\/p>\n
American service members are still fighting terrorists half way around our world, but they’re either forgotten at home or blamed for the terrorists who have swept across Europe. The current administration is focused on emptying Guantanamo and letting the old terrorists get back to their business – and paying them to do so.<\/p>\n
I fully expect that there will be another large-scale terrorist attack between now and the next National Complacency Day celebration – mainly because, like we did in 2001, we’re missing the big picture and we’re bitching about the inconsequential minutiae, the shit that doesn’t mean anything while ignoring the really important stuff. <\/p>\n
Facebook is replete with memes of the twin towers and the words “Never Again”, but we really don’t mean it. It’s just something you say like “Thank you for your service”. No one really wants to do anything to make us safer if it means we have to give up our free shit.<\/p>\n
Isn’t that whole point of National Complacency Day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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